… police doused tension
A popular commissioner of the Ondo State oil producing Areas Osopadec, popularlyi known as Bonsue, representing ondo central was beating by unknown men believed to have been planted around the premises of the office. Suspected hoodlums invaded the premises of the Ondo State Oil Development Area Development Commission (OSOPADEC) disrupted the bursary and scholarship award ceremony of the intervention agency.
The hoodlums who in their numbers prevented the event for several hours as both staff and students scampered for safety as a result of gunshots from the suspected hoodlums.
A source who was in the premises said the hoodlums came in hired vehicles and started to shoot into the premises, thereby preventing the event from holding at a scheduled time.
The source said the beneficiaries of the bursary and scholarship award were seated when the hoodlums came and shot sporadically into the venue and led to pandemonium in the area
The security officers attached to the OSOPADEC office had hectic time curtailing the activities of the suspected hoodlums and had to close the gate leading to the office to prevent those who wanted to entry to and fro from the office.
The commissioner, Kehinde Akinrotoye, known as ‘BonsueAketi’, was beaten to a pulp by these suspected hoodlums who believes that he supposed not to be in the commission as somebody from Ondo town in Ondo West Local Government Area of Ondo state.
The vehicle that brought him into the venue was destroyed and vandalized by the hoodlums, who also destroyed another vehicle in the premises of the intervention agency.
It took the intervention of men of the Ondo State Police Command to bring the situations calm and under the control.
As at the time of filling this report, the security men were strategically positioned to prevent the breakdown of law and order.
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